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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: Jumper who wrote (38)7/31/1997 8:49:00 PM
From: Jeff Redman   of 9818
 
As a COBOL programmer who is working on the Year 2000 changes, there are a lot of people who do not have a clue. We have over 400 programmers in house, most of our systems are still COBOL, with new ones being written in client/server.

In my 18 years of working in this field I have never seen so much hype , this fix is not hard to do, the changes are so simple that it is a boring job to do. That's why we give it to the junior programmers.

Very few of our programs use dates, let alone 2 digits, in the mid 80's we changed our date subroutine to convert 2 digits to 4. All of our new systems use DB2 or Sybase data bases that have a date format of mm/dd/yyyy. The only hard part is testing the systems, and that's if you use contract programmers that don't know the system.

If any informations systems department has not been changing their systems by now or did not start to do something about the century change a few years ago in their new system design's, then they are managed by a bunch of idiots.
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